Gerda Rottschalk

Gerda Elisabeth Berta Rottschalk , née Gerda Berndt , (born June 26, 1920 in Berlin ; † August 8, 2001 in Berlin) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Gerda Rottschalk was the daughter of a glazier and a seamstress. She graduated from business school and worked in a bank from 1936 to 1945. After the end of the Second World War , she took over the post of new teacher and taught lower school students from 1946 to 1955 . From 1961 she worked as a freelance journalist and non-fiction author. She was best known for her popular science children's stories on the topics of the early days of humans , Indians and antiquity , each of which comprises four volumes and was very popular in the GDR .

Gerda Rottschalk had a son. She is buried in the Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Works

Almost all of her books have been published by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin .

People's early days

• The fire animal . 1970
• The wild horse hunters . 1970
• The children of Sumut . 1971
• The temple scribe . 1971
• About the fire animal and the wild horse hunters . 1980 (anthology with all four stories)

NVA

• The test of courage . 1974
• The tank commander . 1974

Indians

• The first Indians . 1977
• The snake dancers . 1978
• The great sun . 1980
• Fight at the Wounded Knee . 1981
• Snake dancers and Large sun . 1988 (anthology with all four stories)

Antiquity

• A garden for Amytis . 1982
• Kleon and Sosias . 1986
• The procurator's son . 1986
• Master of the colored stones . 1989

published after 1989

• Phew, Peter . (Gerda Rottschalk / Rudolf Schultz-Debowski), 2010, Leiv Leipziger Children's Book, ISBN 3-89603-361-1

literature

• Rüdiger Steinlein, Heidi Strobel, Thomas Kramer: Handbook for children's and youth literature. SBZ / GDR. From 1945 to 1990. Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-02177-7 , Sp. 1239.

Web links

• Collection of letters